The drama playing out in Abuja is down to an abuse of power as far as Mr Sani Umar, a spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Presidential Campaign.
“I will say that this is an abuse of state power,” he said.
Umar, who was also on the programme, said the steps highlighted by Mr Bwala were indeed the ones meant to be taken “under normal circumstances”.
For Umar, when it comes to the siege on Senator Melaye’s house, “the circumstance is not normal”.
This, he explained, is because “the police are “interested party in this matter. They are investigating over the shooting of one of them”.
As a result, he said, “The police are not expected to be fair and equitable. And, of course, there are other motives behind the police action. Somebody who is being looked for since July, why would it take only this time for the police to now begin to mount a manhunt for him, clearly knowing that the elections are approaching?”
Although Umar painted the action of the police as one that is condemnable, he does not consider it strange.
“This is not unusual of the police. The police have done that with Senator Ademola Adeleke. When it was almost few days to his election, they were now crafting charges of forgery and other things to take him to court,” he said.
“This is to demoralise him, to demoralise his supporters, to intimidate him and to intimidate the party in power and that is not acceptable. That is an infringement of the dignity of the person in question and the police are acting beyond the normal confines of the law.”
The police have maintained through the ongoing siege that their actions were within the confines of the law and rejected claims by Senator Melaye, his allies and the PDP that there is a sinister motive behind the siege.
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